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A list of the resources I own for unicorn folklore, mythology, and magic. Divided into different sections for easy access. If you have any I missed, please let me know! Under the cut I explain more about the books and why they are good/not great/trash.

The Great:

The Natural History of Unicorns – Chris Lavers

The Book of the Mythical Unicorn – Vakasha Brenman and Alfonso Colasuonno

The Unicorn Tapestries – Margaret B. Freeman

Unicorn Magic – Tess Whitehurst

Unicornis – Michael Green

The Helpful:

A Complete Guide to Heraldry – Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

Llewellyn’s Little Book of Unicorns – Angela Wix

The Unicorn: A Mythological Observation – Robert Brown

Unicorn Magick – Lisa Papez (Youtube video)

How to Believe in Unicorns – Celestial Café Podcast (Youtube video)

Unicorn Sight – Elizabeth Barette (Spell on Llewellyn’s site)

The Fun: (Just light, fun books for unicorn lovers)

For Unicorn Lovers Only – Penelope Gwynne

The Unicorn Handbook – Carolyn Turgeon

Unicorn Your Life – Mary Flannery

Unicornucopa – Caitlyn Doyle (this one even has some cute spells!)

The Little Book of Unicorns – Orange Hippo! (this one even has some cute spells!)

The Meh:

Unicorn Rising – Calista

Unicorns – Skye Alexander

The Trash:

Anything by Diana Cooper

Anything by Flavia Kate Peters

the Treasure of the Unicorn – Ted Andrews

Unicorn Magic – Kitty Bishop

It's a massive issue that the over-collection of seashells has led to. While efforts are being made to attempt to combat the problem, those of us who live near coasts and hermit crab populated areas can help our crabby friends by keeping our hands off the shells that hermit crabs use as homes!

You may be wondering, "Stag, what does this have to do with Hellenic Polytheism?" Many worshippers and devotees of ocean-related deities like to collect seashells and give them as offerings, so this is somewhat of a PSA to maybe think twice before picking up certain shells.

Hermit crab seashells can look like the following:

🏛️The Twelve Olympians🏛️

🏛️The Twelve Olympians🏛️

Since the holiday toy drive post is circulating again, I figured this would also be helpful! Food insecurity is such a massive problem in America, in general, and if you have the means to help feed others, I think you should take that opportunity. Here are some other tips:

1. If you’re planning on donating items from your own pantry, please check the expiration dates on the packaging. Think of your donations as gifts to bestow, not castoffs to be rid of. It’s awful to think of people feeling like they got scraps someone else just didn’t want. Everyone deserves dignity with their meals.

2. If you’d rather give money to a food bank, that’s also great since they buy food in bulk and know what items are most wanted/needed!

3. Not everyone has access to appliances like stoves or microwaves or hot plates so if you can donate items that don’t need to be heated up, that would also be greatly appreciated!

The homeromanteion, or the homeric oracle, is a form of dice divination using fragments of homeric verses to get oracular answers by lot. According to the oxyrhynchus papyrus, it could be also called ‘the scimitar’.

To perform the homeromanteion, first, you need to check that the days and hours (see below) are favourable for divination.

Once the timing is favourable, you then recite a set prayer to Apollo (see below) while thinking of the question you want answered. The prayer is made of five lines from homeric verses. The first three are consecutive lines from the Iliad (Il. XVI 514-516), then two seperate lines from the Odyssey (Od. I 147; Od. XVIII 173).

Then, a dice has to be rolled thrice (or three die once); the three digit number obtained will correspond to a homeric verse, which will be the oracular answer. Below is a list of the possible results and their corresponding fragment. (Excuse the text size, for a list the clearer, see: this pdf – you have to scroll a lot though soz.)

For an online homeromanteion, see: here.

Sources:

PGM VII 1-148

P. Oxy. LVI 3831

When people are turned away, please hold the door open for them.

When people are denounced as dirty, please show them how pure love envelopes them.

When people decide to harden their hearts, please guide them back to kindness.

Please welcome all those who have nowhere to belong.

Please be a companion to all who are traveling alone.

Thank you for everything, immortal lord, thunderer and overseer of oaths.

🦪 :: — "Iridescent-throned Aphrodite, deathless Child of Zeus, wile-weaver, I now implore you, [...] come to me once more, and abate my torment; take the bitter care from my mind, and give me all I long for; Lady, in all my battles fight as my comrade."